Roneon.
/ˈrəʊnɪəʊ/, U.S. /ˈroʊnioʊ/ A proprietary name for: any of various kinds of office equipment, esp. (now chiefly historical) a stencil-based duplicating machine.
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society > communication > printing > duplicating processes > [noun] > copying-machine
rolling press1780
copying-press1785
copying-machine1803
letterpress1839
manifold letter writer1840
multigraph1878
chromograph1880
cyclostyle1883
graph1884
Roneo1901
jellygraph1919
Multilith1933
society > communication > representation > [noun] > copying apparatus > with stencil > proprietary name
Roneo1901
1901 Trade Marks Jrnl. 27 Nov. 1182 Roneo... Paper.., stationery and bookbinding. Neostyle Manufacturing Company, Limited.
1914 D. Fraser Winning Primitive People iii. xxvi. 272 A native clerk is there..turning on the Roneo hundreds of copies of some circular to the teachers.
1941 E. R. Eddison Fish Dinner xiii. 229 I'll go on for a bit: get my covering memorandum into shape... You've got the annexes all off the roneo now, have you?
1977 J. A. Lent Third World Mass Media App. D. 351 She gave the boy operating the Roneo meticulous instructions and then phoned a couple of reporters.
1992 W. Nash Uncommon Tongue vi. 91 The Roneo was not a forgiving machine. Stencils got creased or torn, the ink blubbered all over your shirt cuffs.
2002 J. Baxter Pound of Paper (2003) i. vi. 84 His two blue-covered foolscap volumes, reproduced by Roneo on insubstantial paper, became my bible.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
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1905 School July p. iii. (advt.) The Roneo Duplicator. The ‘Roneo’ enables anyone to produce 5000 perfect copies, in handwriting or typewriting, at the rate of 70 per minute.
1920 Glasgow Herald 3 Dec. 10 The staff of typists and Roneo operators required is very numerous and well paid.
1926 Socialist Rev. June 10 No printed newspapers (a few roneo bulletins), no trains.
1958 S. Hyland Who goes Hang? xxxi. 136 The complexities of the Roneo strip-index on which he was working.
1978 in G. M. Gerhart Black Power in S. Afr. (1979) vii. 225 We want ink, paper,..roneo machine... These things would be in our offices.
1996 J. Barnes Cross Channel 116 The paper was unheaded, and though the signature looked original, the text above it had that faded, blurry, purply look of the Roneo machine or pre-war carbon paper.
C2.
Roneo-copied adj.
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1973 J. Wainwright High-class Kill 119 An official statement; typed-out, Roneo-copied.
2007 J. D. Francis Entry in Train Register iv. 55 A pair of hand- written, roneo-copied sheets were delivered to the box each day detailing the workings for the next 24 hours.
Roneo-typed adj.
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1972 D. G. Charlton France ix. 420 Writing often took the form of polemics or patriotic essays contributed to such initially roneo-typed periodicals as Résistance, La Pensée libre [etc.].
2007 M. Perry Prisoners of Want ix. 224 The second issue ofLa Voix followed the same roneo-typed double-sided format.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
roneov.
/ˈrəʊnɪəʊ/, U.S. /ˈroʊnioʊ/ Now chiefly historical.
transitive. To copy or reproduce with a Roneo duplicating machine. Chiefly passive.
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society > communication > representation > [verb (transitive)] > copying equipment > with apparatus which uses a stencil > proprietary name
roneo1915
1915 Musical Times 56 560/1 An industrious member had ‘Roneo'd’ a lot of skeleton programmes and some chorus words.
1928 Bull. Internat. Fed. League of Nations Societies May–June 5 Among the documents which have been translated, roneoed and distributed by the Secretariat may be cited the following important Memoranda.
1940 W. S. Churchill Second World War (1949) II. 631 The officials concerned in roneo-ing the various circulations.
1966 B. Brophy Don't never Forget 310 If they [sc. the prophet's words] were found to be inspired by the Holy Ghost they were roneoed and circulated.
1998 N. Earls Bachelor Kisses (1999) vii. 93 I was the founder of the satirical journal Marshall's Weekly , which I wrote, edited and, with the endorsement of my English teacher, roneoed myself in the staff room and sold at a small and undisclosed profit.
Derivatives
ˈroneoing n.
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1925 19th Cent. & After Jan. 107 Sub-editors..rapidly dictating to typists, who operate on wax stencils for roneoing purposes.
2005 J. Percy Hist. Democratic Socialist Party & Resistance I. vi. 178 Initially it was stapled foolscap sheets of poorly printed offset that didn't look much better than roneoing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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